I'm a shoot-on-the-run travel photographer. If I had to guess I probably have less than 5 seconds to setup and take the average shot. With a "real" camera, you can get all the knobs and buttons and such down to muscle memory and with a few manipulations usually get set to something you want. After taking something like 100,000 photos with my current camera, I barely even look at it to get it set how I want for a shot.
I've tried, really tried to get into the habit of using the camera I have, my phone camera. It's a decent 13MP, f2.2 camera with lots of familiar settings, but it takes so long to set up a shot with any of the camera apps I've tried that I usually miss what I want. Or there's some kind of weird "processing" delay after I shoot where the sensor stays on long after I've taken the shot and I end up with a blurry stupid mess.
With my real camera, I'd say that I'm probably really happy with about 1% of the shots I make, and decently happy with about 5%. With all the phones I've used, those number easily get cut by a fifth.
The workflow is also, for some reason, fussier with my phone than my camera. I'm usually traveling overseas when I shoot, so internet access is spotty, and I can't wait for my phone to sync over some craptastic Italian hotel wi-fi. Popping an SD card into my computer to transfer a day's shots off is much quicker and easier. (and yes, I've toyed around with just connecting up my phone to my computer to copy off of, but there's usually some kind of fuss over it being seen as a USB drive so I can copy off of).
Also, bokeh, I can get such beautiful creamy effortless bokeh with my long lens, and those photos look omg fantastic most of the time. My phone at best requires me to get right up on something and then I just get a blur on everything else. Whatever optical magic is happening in my camera, filters in photoshop just don't make up for it.
I've tried, really tried to get into the habit of using the camera I have, my phone camera. It's a decent 13MP, f2.2 camera with lots of familiar settings, but it takes so long to set up a shot with any of the camera apps I've tried that I usually miss what I want. Or there's some kind of weird "processing" delay after I shoot where the sensor stays on long after I've taken the shot and I end up with a blurry stupid mess.
With my real camera, I'd say that I'm probably really happy with about 1% of the shots I make, and decently happy with about 5%. With all the phones I've used, those number easily get cut by a fifth.
The workflow is also, for some reason, fussier with my phone than my camera. I'm usually traveling overseas when I shoot, so internet access is spotty, and I can't wait for my phone to sync over some craptastic Italian hotel wi-fi. Popping an SD card into my computer to transfer a day's shots off is much quicker and easier. (and yes, I've toyed around with just connecting up my phone to my computer to copy off of, but there's usually some kind of fuss over it being seen as a USB drive so I can copy off of).
Also, bokeh, I can get such beautiful creamy effortless bokeh with my long lens, and those photos look omg fantastic most of the time. My phone at best requires me to get right up on something and then I just get a blur on everything else. Whatever optical magic is happening in my camera, filters in photoshop just don't make up for it.